The Grenada gazette., 1887-12-31
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Russian Govern mont "a max
ing Efforts to encourage the cultiva
ton of cotton.
A solid cut.glsss bedstead. richl,
worked, was lately made at Birmin o
ham, England for a Calcutta million
aire.
An invention for steering balloon!
suitable for military purposes has JUS
been purchased by the German Gov
ernment for million marks.
An eighty-year old widow recent
ly committed suicide in Silesia He,
motive was poverty and hunger and
yet she had l04 children. grandchil,
dren and sreat-grandchildren.
The Congo in general is no place
tor Europeans. according to R G
Phillips, who has spent many years on
the lower part of that river as a trader.
He says that Europeans lose thei,
health rapidly under the influence OF
the climate. N y LEDGER
"A pneumatic clock company is a
new thing in Paris. which takes charge
OF number Of clocks. regulatin o
them by air power. When the pipcs
get out Of order. which happens about
twice week, large part of Paris is
timeless
"A Telegraph limo TO connect Russia
and France is being built. In case of
war with Germany Russia would 10
cut off from all tclcgraphic communi-
cation with the eastern countries, as
the only telegraph wire it has goes
through Germany.
British IRON workers are rejoicing
over the fact that in eight months they
have sold America 1000, 600 tons OF
iron and steel, and that the volume Of
business this year will be twenty five
per cent greater than that OF 1885.
the days of the small shopkeeper,
who only buys at third or fourth hand
in small quantities without any com.
mand Of the market, are consider ed
numbered in London, owing to the con-
tnued development of cooperation.
An enormous amount of solid capital
is being used in antagonism to retail
competitors
-Eoumsnia is making an effort to |
build up its local industries. A law
has been passed euacting that every
person who establishes factory worth |
81 ocC, and employs twenty five work.
men Tor five months in the year. can
set up his buildings on crown property
ground being allotted ~ Him Oh a
lease for ninety years.
The manufacture OF bicycles and
tricycles is the latest development OF
German competition with hitherto
specifically English industry. The
splendid roads Of the Black Forest and
Switzerland have this year been more
thronged than ever before with veloci-
pcdists There is now hardly town
in Germany without its velocipcde
club Public Opinion.
The gold mines of Australia con.
tinue 70 be very productive. Some of
them are more than 2. 600 feet in depth,
aud many will be sunk even lower
than that in the near future This is
con !rary to the predictions of old min
ing experts, who said many years ago
that no gold would ever be found in
Australia at a depth greater than
hundred feet.
The p,a! for signaling accurate c
time from seacoasts was first adopted
by Great Britain about thirty years d
ago That country has now on its il
coasts fourteen timc-balis and five k
other timo-signals, and its colonies h
and dependencies have twenty six
lime balls; Germany has seven time
balls; France, Two time. balls and wo
other time signals; Sweded and Nor +
way, Austria Hungary. Holland and C
Brlglnm, aud the United States. have a
i've timo-balls each; Denmark has 1
.wo; Spain and Portugal, one each; "
Italy, none. Boston Budget Il
The work of putting up memorial eI
md historical tablets goes on com. N
nendably in Paris. Two have just N
een placed on the asylum for the deaf e
nd dumb. The first states that the fe
Abbe de LEpce began his sclf-ap- ct
'ointed mission 10 the deaf and dumb II
D 1850, and opened school for them su
n house now demolished in the Rue q
cs Moalins, where he died, surround. to
d by his pupils, December %. 1879: n,
he second, which runs as follows, is su
-om decree of the National Assem-. si
ly, dated July 81. 1889: THE name IN
the Able de rEpce. founder Of this III
sylum. will be placed in the list Of an
lose citizens who have hest deserved WI
I their nation and Of the human fc
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